Death Notice of Erika Schwalm
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Erika Schwalm
Address:
Niemandsfeld 1, 60435 Frankfurt, Germany
Website
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Short biography:
Born 1941 in Frankfurt, holder of the Sogetsu-Ikebana-School Frankfurt, founding member and leader of the regional Haiku Group Frankfurt, founding member of the German Haiku Society, Member of the World Haiku Association since 2003, she died on 17 December 2005 in Frankfurt.
Statement of poetics :
She loved the nature and the Japanese gardens, tried to bring together music, ikebana and haiku. Her focal points were prose, lyric poetry, multi media, ikebana and haiku workshops, haiku readings, ikebana and haiku exhibitions.
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44 Memorial Haiku for Erika Schwalm (1941`2005)
28 December 2005
Edited by Banfya Natsuishi & Angelee Deodhar
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Every flower has withered
Erika now
on the cloud
Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan)
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Está morta e não morreu.
Ela caíu num poço sem fundo|
um campo de flores
She is dead and did not die.
She fell into a bottomless well|
A flower field
Casimiro de Brito (Portugal)
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Autumn sunset|
the wind takes away gold tears
from our birch-tree.
D. V. Rozic (Croatia)@
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ikebana:
after she left the room,
the perfume of petals
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Jack Galmitz (USA)
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snuffed out by a draft
the candle's scent lingers
in the moonlight
Norman Darlington (Ireland)
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with winter,
the crying of trees;
the refusal of dreams
to rest in
long ago eyes
Robert Wilson (USA)
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Wind has no shape
please accept the yellow roses,
and the red roses
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Sayumi Kamakura (Japan)
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Le murmure flou
des grands platanes du parc:
adieu Erika !
Georges Friedenkraft ( France)
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dry leaves
for ikebana...
the long cry of a bird
Ion Codrescu (Romania)
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visiting the dog's grave
then away!
grasshopper
David G. Lanoue(USA)
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when the mourners
will leave this world
then I'll really die
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Andrej A. Golob (Slovenia)
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snowfall...
I end my long walk
to light a candle
Sonja Koranter (Slovenia)
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sij son?nega zatona
? vest o smrti
haiku znanke
last?glare of?the sun|
the news about the death
of?a?haijin
Edin Sara?evi? (Slovenia)
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Thrown into the river
I'm painted on each cliff|
the sunlight
Slavica ?avli (Slovenia)
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a gust of wind|
the waning moon vanishes
in the haze
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Alenka Zorman (Slovenia)
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Passenger falling
down into the Pacific|
from the haiku barque
Borut Zupan?i? (Slovenia)
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In this fresh Ikebana
her soul reincarnated
the most beauteous flower
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Vasile Moldovan?? (Romania)
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Stars in the sky|
on the earth her soul attempting
to soar to the heaven
Valentin Nicolitov (Romania)
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shadows of the wind
reflecting on the water
life and death dancing
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Sam yada Cannarozzi (France)
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to nothingness
from nothingness
ah, ikebana!
Zinovy Vayman (USA)
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Bad Nauheim Hotel
composing an ikebana
Erika Schwalm
Jean Antonini (France)
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Hand of God
or heavy snow?
It's covered by black dress
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Chie Takamiya (Japan)
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Looking back
snow on her shoulder
temple bell
David McMurray (Japan)
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coloured wings
in hoarfrost branches
how close the past
Visnja McMaster (Croatia)
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December
one more sad news
we have to gain
Minako Noma (Japan)
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winter sunshine
petals of fresh flowers
on the pavement
Sasa Vazic (Serbia)
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Let thousand@ikebana
decorate your grave
and a haiku-string.
Judit Vihar (Hungary)
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wu~y~p r v~}|
|y|y r y{uqp~u
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woman in black|
the lily in ikebana
broken in two
Shiroki Mirukami (Russia)?
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surrounded by flowers
a life turns back
to earth
Gabi Greve (Japan)
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Icy ikebana
On my window glass|
Erika passed away
Dragan J. Ristic (Serbia)
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If you could be anything you wanted,
what would you be, Erika?
There's not Erika...
Mariko Ichii (Japan)
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Her thin hands
building flowers
for seasons to come
Kai Falkman (Sweden)
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Unknown weeds|
no longer unknown
in Erika's hands
Kuniharu Shimizu (Japan)
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with a large smile
and her kind eyes,
a friend for ever
Laura Vaceanu (Romania)
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The singing bird
climbs to?the heaven|
angels learn haiku
Hideki?Ishikura (Japan)
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touched by the wind
a birch leaf glides
into the moonlight
Polona Oblak (Slovenia)
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icy night|
has she really written
her?last haiku?
Jana F. Jelen (Slovenia)
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Silence...
as the freezing air breaks
leaves from a tree
Gerd Börner?(Germany)
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Die Erika (erica carnea),
verwelkt in einem Schwall
von Trauerbotschaft.
Ivo Anti? (Slovenia)
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memorial wreath|
one greeting less
this Christmas
Angelee Deodhar (India)
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Poppies|
the earth recalls
it has a heart of fire
Ludmila Balabanova (Bulgaria)
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autumn roses
but their scent like
the spring ones
Jadran Zalokar (Croatia)
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The poet is gone.
Naked magnolia branches
decorated with buds.
Zoran Doderovic (Serbia and Montenegro)
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A wind has blown
lilies she arranged
light is left
Bin Akio (Japan)